THE EUCHARIST IS COMMUNION WITH CHRIST AND THE CHURCH (part -1)

I would like to reflect on the third essential truth about the Eucharist from “The Mystery of the Eucharist in the Life of the Church document. The Eucharist is Communion with Christ and the Church. In past articles, I reflected on Eucharist as the Sacrifice of Christ and the Real Presence of Christ. We begin with a quote from the Second Vatican Council’s Dogmatic Constitution on the Church: Lumen Gentium (Light of the World) on the importance of ALL the Sacraments, but in a uniquely particular way, the Most Blessed Sacrament: the Eucharist. The Eucharist is the Source and Summit. “Taking part in the Eucharistic Sacrifice, which is the FOUNT and APEX (some translations say ‘SOURCE and SUMMIT’) of the whole Christian life, (Christians) offer the Divine Victim to God, and offer themselves along with It.” (To be continued…)
Father Maria Joseph Kodiganti